parterre box » turbans http://parterre.com where opera is king and you, the readers, are queens Sun, 27 May 2012 16:00:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Talking the talk http://parterre.com/2009/11/14/talking-the-talk/ http://parterre.com/2009/11/14/talking-the-talk/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:08:04 +0000 La Cieca http://parterre.com/?p=9954 price_interview
An elegantly beturbaned Miss Leontyne Price offers an object lesson in The Art of the Diva Interview.

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On the other hand, some people look right at home in a turban:

Which brings La Cieca to our competition. La Cieca challenges you to choose a current diva (operatic or otherwise) and then adorn her with a turban using online utility The Turbanizer. Email the resulting photo to your doyenne at lacieca@parterre.com.

La Cieca will select the top five finalists and you, the cher public, will decide upon the most gloriously beturbaned femme of them all, and the winner will receive an amazon.com gift certificate.

Here’s an example (created using the Turbanizer) to get you started:

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See Susan Bullock and Christine Goerke Sing Elektra!

Washington National Opera stars Susan Bullock and Christine Goerke are featured in these extended excerpts and interviews from a recent production of Strauss’ Elektra in Florence, Italy, directed by Robert Carsen and conducted by Seiji Ozawa. Note: The interviews and subtitles are in Italian, and Clip Two contains nudity.

But, on the other hand, La Cieca thinks perhaps (just perhaps) nudity might be preferable to some of the costuming for this production, which our informant describes as “a particularly overwrought drag show.”

you gotta see mutter every night or you can't see mutter at all

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The Bonynge and Sutherland of YouTube, Wenarto and Izzy Anderson, return with a more elaborately produced version of what is rapidly becoming Izzy’s signature tune, “Nessun dorma!”

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The ladies are (of course) Deanna Durbin and “wavishing” Kay Francis.

]]> http://parterre.com/2008/02/23/convergence/feed/ 19 ready for her turban http://parterre.com/2008/02/23/522/ http://parterre.com/2008/02/23/522/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:36:46 +0000 La Cieca http://parterre.com/?p=522 So La Cieca thinks it’s time to declare this officially: Kiri te Kanawa has become a mean old bat. The downbeat diva, most recently in the headlines for her controversial anti-panty policy, has gone and dished Hayley Westenra, who apparently is a New Zealand popera singer. (Well, to be perfectly fair, “apparently” isn’t so accurate a way of putting it. Ms. Westenra’s debut CD currently ranks as “the biggest-selling classical album of the 21st century.” Really, cher public, you should keep La Cieca up to date on stuff like this.)

kiri_cranky.jpgAnyway, the cranky Kiwi gave an interview to Canvas magazine (yes, again, La Cieca feels like she’s totally in the dark here) where she sniped that 20-year-old Hayley is “…not in my world, she’s never been in it at all.”

Te Kanawa then widened the scope of her outrage, insisting that pop opera performers in general “…are all fake singers, they sing with a microphone. People call them up-and-coming, but they never last. They are the new fakes for the new generation.”

Unfortunately La Cieca was not on hand to eavesdrop on the rest of the interview, but she dearly hopes that Dame Kiri next said something like, “Look at them in the front offices — the masterminds! They took the idols and smashed them — the Fairbanks and the Gilberts, the Valentinos! And who have we got now? Some nobodies!”

Incidentally, Dame Kiri’s next engagement (Tuesday, February 26) is a guest appearance on the New Zealand version of the television show “Dancing with the Stars.”

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